Palanga work exchange branch
Economy

13,400 job vacancies were available in Lithuania

Statistics Lithuania has announced that at the end of the second quarter of 2015 there were 13,400 job vacancies for salaried employees. […]

Vytautas Stasiūnas
Energy

Gas rebate model is not functioning in Lithuania

Energy experts say that the model applied to consumers by state enterprise Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas for recovery of overpayments for gas, which accumulated from January 2013 through April 2014, is faulty. Energy experts arrived to the conclusion after calculating that Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas, company engaged in gas import and sales, returned in January-July 2015 only EUR 2.5 million of the EUR 34 million of overpayments. […]

Vilnius' air port
Economy

Lithuania accommodated 4.8% more guests in Q2 2015 y-o-y

Based on provisional data, in the second quarter of 2015, accommodation establishments accommodated by 4.8 percent more guests than in the same quarter of 2014 and received 663.4 thousand tourists. The number of tourists from the EU countries totalled 229.7 thousand (by 5.9 percent more than in the same quarter of 2014), from non-EU countries – 148.6 thousand (by 6.1 percent less). The number of Lithuania’s residents accommodated grew by 10.6 percent and totalled 285.1 thousand, Statistics Lithuania said. […]

NATO military jets
Defence

NATO fighters scrambled twice last week in Baltic states

On 17-23 August NATO fighter jets conducting air policing tasks in the Baltic skies were scrambled twice to intercept aircraft in the international airspace above the Baltic states, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania reports. […]

No Picture
Economy

Lithuania’s insurance market posts record growth

In the first half of 2015 year-on-year, Lithuania’s insurance market has grown by 6.4 percent based on written premiums and reached a record volume of EUR 312.3 million. […]

Economy

Chinese delegation to evaluate Lithuania’s readiness to export cattle

A delegation of experts from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) of the People’s Republic of China will be visiting Lithuania for two weeks starting Tuesday. They will evaluate how animal health, wellbeing and serious transmissible diseases are controlled in Lithuania. One of the key goals of the visit is to begin exporting cattle from Lithuania to China. […]